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I have lived in zeewolde near the place of the datacenter, I can tell you that its massive, especially considering how small the country is and how densely popu
by Out_of_Characte 4y ago
I have lived in zeewolde near the place of the datacenter, I can tell you that its massive, especially considering how small the country is and how densely populated it is. Historically, flevoland was created for the express purpose of creating fertile land to farm on. The only reason they didn't build it on industrial land was because of anti-competitive deals with the zeewolde municipality in order to reduce the land usage costs. Also, there are no big supermarkets in the Netherlands.
From an american perspective I can understand that this doesnt make alot of sense. but zeewolde is just shy of 60km from schiphol airport. Distances, building sizes and infrastructure and everything else has adapted really well to this dense country, this datacenter is not.
- MonaroVXR 4y agoAs a Dutch man, there is very large one near supermarket... Adres: Pampusweg 13, 1398PT Muiden, Noord-Holland
- gpvos 4y agoIt's basically the only one in the country.
- gattilorenz 4y agoFor very large values of one: https://www.ah.nl/winkels?storeType=XL https://www.ah.nl/winkels?storeType=XL
- gpvos 4y agoI don't know all of these, but it seems that nearly all are still inside the city, have a local function and are reasonably reachable by something else than a car. The ones I know are still smaller than the average French hypermarché, and there are far fewer than them. The Muiden mall was the first one and caused a shift in policy to strongly discourage moving shops to the city edge.
- surgical_fire 4y ago> Also, there are no big supermarkets in the Netherlands. When I was in the Netherlands there were a couple of AH XL that were pretty big, at least for my standards. Not sure about how much square meters they occupied. And they were useful :)